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Definition of Botanical medicine
1. Noun. The use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet).
Category relationships: Flora, Plant, Plant Life
Generic synonyms: Therapy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Botanical Medicine
Literary usage of Botanical medicine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"... on such practices as botanical medicine, homeopathy, hydrotherapy, nutrition,
and manipulation. Research on these alternative processes slowed to a near ..."
2. Income Opportunities in Special Forest Products: Self-Help Suggestions for by Margaret G. Thomas (1994)
"This is a fine publication, a must for those with an interest in botanical medicine
or research. The International Herb Growers and Marketers Association ..."
3. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery by Daniel Drake, Lundsford Pitts Yandell (1845)
"... —botanical medicine and Elementary Principles of Zoology. F. de J. Candido—Physical
Medicine. Second Year. JV Torres Homem—Chemical Medicine and ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... veterinary surgery, and an outline of botanical medicine. In 1816 he became
a Christian, and in 1817 began the study of theology. ..."
5. Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and by Joseph Hartwell Barrett (1864)
"... vast ma-*s of material collected under the name of botanical medicine, and
for his determination lo oppose the wholesale quackery of Eclectic Chemical ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature by John Lansing Wendell, New York (State). Supreme Court (1874)
"Barber sued Allcott in a justice's court, and declared in writing, in these
words : " Declaration for botanical medicine for 'a) By chap 275 of Laws of 1844 ..."
7. Writings of Levi Woodbury, LL. D.: Political, Judicial and Literary by Levi Woodbury (1852)
"... the peppermint and the rue, as well as in some of the more modern plants reared
for what is called "botanical medicine; " there is profit, too, ..."
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